Mikeoxenormous
Diamond Member
When Homosexuality Stopped Being a Mental Disorderyour first sentence says the APA declared it a mental disorder,,,the OP
or did you just make it up???
I wrote it if that's what you are asking. I did not "make up" the facts that it is based on though.
usually when you quote someone in this manner you back it up with a link,,,
First published in 1968, DSM-II (the American classiifcation of mental disorders) listed homosexuality as a mental disorder. In this, the DSM followed in a long tradition in medicine and psychiatry, which in the 19th century appropriated homosexuality from the Church and, in an élan of enlightenment, transformed it from sin to mental disorder.
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) asked all members attending its convention to vote on whether they believed homosexuality to be a mental disorder. 5,854 psychiatrists voted to remove homosexuality from the DSM, and 3,810 to retain it.